All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

The most alive is the wildest.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.